Cult Of The Lamb: Best Crown Upgrades To Get First, Ranked

Highlights

• Cult of the Lamb is a roguelike management game that combines defeating enemies with growing a cult.
• Players can unlock crown upgrades that benefit them in the roguelike elements of the game.
• The recommended order to purchase crown upgrades is: Resurrection, Sate the Hunger, Omnipresence, and Darkness Within.

Cult of the Lamb is an incredible roguelike title that combines those mechanics with a management game. Players must balance defeating powerful enemies while also looking after their followers as their cult grows. With a crown atop the Lamb’s head, few would dare to question its authority, and the various upgrades a player can unlock for their crown will also make sure the enemies they face will fear them too.

While there are only four upgrades for the crown, players will need to work for it if they hope to unlock them all. Therefore, it’s great to know which crown upgrade a player should aim for first and which one they can leave until last. Each crown upgrade benefits the player when taking part in the roguelike elements of the game; some help with grinding for resources, while others can have more of an active role in completing the main story in Cult of the Lamb. Out of the crown upgrades available, this is the order players should be earning them.

Updated on January 26, 2024, by Megan Smith: Starting 2024 off well, Cult of the Lamb has added an entirely new and free DLC to the incredible roguelike title known as Sins of the Flesh. In this update, players now have an entirely new resource to collect known as sin that comes with all sorts of new rituals, upgrades, and buildings for players to create. This new addition to the game, along with the titles’ constant sales on sites such as the Steam store, may have encouraged players to finally purchase Cult of the Lamb. The crown that sits atop the lamb’s head remains the same, with players being able to purchase four upgrades for it. The cULT of the Lamb upgrades, such as Omnipresence, are great for players to purchase first and therefore, this is the best order to purchase them.

Start With A Diseased Heart And Normal Hearts

• Diseased hearts damage all enemies on a level, once the entire heart has been used up.
• Players will automatically get this heart when they start a crusade.

Darkness Within is a great upgrade for any player who is enjoying Cult of the Lamb, though it shouldn’t be the first upgrade a player should invest in. Diseased hearts can be easily obtained during a Crusade through a lucky tarot find or dropping from the environment. This therefore makes the upgrade unnecessary, minus the extra heart the player can use to make sure that they can make it to the end of their current Crusade.

However, this doesn’t mean that Darkness Within is useless, as these diseased hearts are incredibly powerful against enemies. When a player is hit, they will damage all the foes on screen for a substantial amount of damage, they can do this twice before the heart is completely gone; it cannot be earned again unless the player starts another Crusade. There are three other upgrades that players should consider purchasing first before they decide on Darkness Within, as this upgrade isn’t going to go anywhere until they can afford it at last.

3 Dare To Go Farther With Omnipresence

Instantly Return To The Player’s Base

• Players can escape from the level they are in to teleport back to their cult.
• It will restart the crusade but the player will leave with everything they had earned during the run.

Sometimes a Crusade run can be a little overwhelming, and a player wishes to simply escape. Before the Omnipresence upgrade, the only way to leave a Crusade was either in a body bag or by defeating the boss of that run. Thankfully, Omnipresence allows a player to no longer have to make it all the way through a Crusade to keep the resources they’ve collected. At any given time–as long as the player isn’t directly being attacked–the player can press the designated button for Omnipresence to easily teleport out of their current Crusade.

It should be noted that the player cannot return to that run but instead must start all over again if they wish to take on that level of Crusade once more. Omnipresence should be obtained thirdly due to how it can benefit both story Crusades and grinding for resources. Once a player has completed the boss for that Crusade, they are allowed to continue with their run instead of returning to the flock. As mentioned, without Omnipresence, a player would be forced to wait until the next boss, but with this upgrade, they can stop whenever they wish; players should remember that their cult will need their leader back at some point.

2 Sate The Hunger Second

• Depending on the type of food cooked by the player, this can give various options for hearts earned from them.
• Players will need to create their own food and eat it quickly to avoid a follower taking it instead.

Players are likely to be saving food for their followers who sit at home completing rituals and worshiping their master –the Lamb– while the player goes out on Crusades to release the One Who Waits. However, with the crown upgrade known as The Hunger, the player can now also finally join in and take a bite of the delicious food they have created to benefit themselves during their various crusades. When eating a meal that has been cooked by themselves, the player will receive either a heart, multiple hearts, or even a different type of heart.

This will all depend on the type of food that has been created by the player. Therefore, it would be recommended to save the good ingredients for the Lamb to allow for the best type and number of hearts when going on their next crusade. Players should aim to get this crown upgrade second due to how useful it is for battles, especially those that feel they struggle to dodge out the way of attacks; more health means less likely to die miserably.

1 Always Get Resurrection First

Use A Followers Life To Come Back Once On A Crusade

• When a player dies, they have the option to kill a follower to get a second chance to continue their crusade.
• This can only be done once per crusade and will permanently kill that follower.
• Depending on the rank of the follower, it will determine how many hearts the player comes back with.

Out of the four available crown upgrades a player has to choose from, by far the best a player should obtain first is the Resurrection upgrade. This is vital for any player who has been finding Cult of the Lamb to be quite the challenge and is sick of dying and being unable to finish a Crusade. With the Resurrection upgrade, a player can come back once more when they die the first time during a Crusade.

There is a catch to this, the player must select a follower from their cult to be a Sacrifice so that the little Lamb can rise once more to take on the enemies ahead of them. Depending on who is sacrificed from the followers available will also determine how many hearts the player revives with. A player can still decide to simply lay down and die if they so wish not to sacrifice a follower though out of all the crown upgrades available, the is one that a player should be investing into first, especially if they wish to easily cull the numbers of their following.